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Art Institutions: Initiators and Reflectors of Neighbourhood Change | By: Ekaterina Mizrokhi and Melissa Vincent 2 Change ARTS INSTITUTIONS: INITIATORS AND REFLECTORS OF NEIGHBOURHOOD CHANGE Arts institutions, such as prominent, established superstar global cities such as Paris, London, and museums and galleries, complement the inherent most definitely New York. New York City is heterogeneity and the definitive dynamic mix of often the backdrop for the dynamic trends of urbanity.1 As civic anchors, they are institutional urbanization facing contemporary cities as one of entities that occupy sizeable amounts of land,2 the world’s most influential economic and real estate and social capital.3 Anchor institutions cultural nodes. As the home of over 83 museums7 have an interdependent relationship with the dispersed among its 5 boroughs, the communities they’re located in, interacting in headquarters of some of the world’s most various capacities such as service providers, celebrated fashion designers and a plethora of workforce developers and community studios and artist-run spaces,8 New York’s infrastructure builders. Anchor institutions dominance as a crucial center of the arts is drive shared value for both the institution and derived from its dense concentration of creative the neighbourhood.4 As destination landmarks and cultural producers. that denote world-class status, these institutions are magnets for high profile investment, creating Perhaps New York’s greatest strength lies in pockets of increased real estate values across its capacity to harness its artistic talents such that the city. they contribute to both the local cultural economy as well as the global marketplace.9 In 2015, 10 of Parallelly, investments into cultural anchor the most expensive works purchased in auction institutions fuel new development and encourage were acquired in New York and the city was the the settlement of high-income residents back into site of two thirds of auction sales over $1 million, the city centre.5 This forces land values to highlighting it as a marketplace for the elite10. For skyrocket, creating shortages of available land independent artists, New York offers several and affordable housing options, while native low opportunities to network with the global art income individuals are displaced and pushed world through the annual Armory Fair and into the outer suburbs -- one of the defining Frieze New York.11 This duality solidifies New elements of gentrification. York’s position on the top of the global art scene while simultaneously acting as a tastemaker for Projected data anticipates that by the year up and coming artists.12 2050 more people will be living in urban rather than rural areas;6 as this urban migration A great deal of work has been dedicated to continues, the tension for space will persist in highlighting the specific role that arts institutions in New York have played in neighbourhood 1 Schulman, S. (2012). “The Dynamics of Death and Displacement” In The Gentrification of the Mind, 28-35. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2 Birch, E. (2010). Anchor Institutions and their Role in Metropolitan Change. Penn Institute for Urban Research, 1. Retrieved from: 7 Artsy. (2015) “The 15 Most Influential Art World Cities of 2015”. Artsy + Planet http://penniur.upenn.edu/uploads/media/anchor-institutions-and-their-role- Art. Retrieved from https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial- in-metropolitan-change.pdf. Accessed August 5, 2016. contemporary-art-s-most-influential-cities 3 Porter, M. (2010). Anchor Institutions and Urban Economic Development: 8 Ibid. From Community Benefit to Shared Value. Initiative for a Competitive Inner 9 Currid, E (2006). “New York as a Global Creative Hub: A Competitive City. Retrieved from Analysis of Four Theories on World Cities”. Economic Development Quarterly. http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents/projects/icic.pdf Retrieved from 4 Ibid. http://journals1.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/0891242 5 Whyte, M. (2016). Soaring rent threatens Sterling Road’s creative vibe. 4/v20i0004/330_nyaagcoftowc.xml Toronto Star. Retrieved from 10 Artsy. (2015) “The 15 Most Influential Art World Cities of 2015”. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2016/01/31/some-sterling- 11 Ibid. road-artists-facing-steeper-rents-plan-to-move-on.html 12 Brooks, A., Kushner, C., and Roland, J. (2002) “What Makes an Arts Capital: 6 The United Nations. (2014). World Urbanization Prospects. Retrieved from: Quantifying a City’s Cultural Environment”. International Journal of Arts https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Publications/Files/WUP2014-Highlights.pdf. Management. Retrieved from Accessed August 5, 2016. file:///Users/melissavincent/Downloads/out%20(20).pdf Art Institutions: Initiators and Reflectors of Neighbourhood Change | By: Ekaterina Mizrokhi and Melissa Vincent 2 change. Through their symbolic appropriation of prominent New York City institutions space to make room for arts-based initiatives, arts investigated were as follows: The MoMA PS1 in institutions function as the “colonizing arm”13 of Long Island City, Queens; The Brooklyn Museum gentrification. This is further reified through the in the Crown Heights neighbourhood of role arts institutions have played in influencing Brooklyn; and The Frick Collection in the Lenox urban planning decisions, such as the creation Hill neighbourhood of the Upper East Side of and modification of policies that fund, open and Manhattan. expand institutions in the hopes of catalyzing future development.14 As the racial, ethnic and To maximize the observations of the socioeconomic characteristics of neighbourhoods institutions during the relatively short 5 week in New York City evolve over time, the policies, collaborative internship with the Martin curation, and overarching goals of arts Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto institutions evolve as well. This gives them the and The Urban Lab at the New York University power to reflect neighbourhood change as well as Schack Institute of Real Estate, each case study to initiate it. comprised of site visits to the institution supplemented by an analysis following Arts institutions recognize and display this attendance at one of their major monthly events. relationship in various ways, as seen materialized For each visit, an ethnographic survey was through different approaches to engagement and completed about the content of the exhibits and curation. That being said, all neighbourhoods are the manner in which they were curated, the unique and so are their respective institutions; degree of physical and social integration and the each represents its own unique interplay of accessibility achieved therein, along with particular histories, conflicts, tensions, vested observations on how families, individuals, and interests and spatial complexities. As such, the groups navigated and interacted with the spaces. particular influence that each arts institution has This was followed by a comparison of the trends had and will continue to have as an agent of between the events and the standard visiting gentrification will vary significantly from experience. The content and observations institution to institution, neighbourhood to obtained through the ethnographic surveys were neighbourhood, and borough to borough. then analyzed thematically to inform a more contemporary and often uncaptured METHODOLOGY understanding of the identity of each institution. Demographic and socioeconomic data on This research initiative prioritized the importance community areas and census tracts supplemented of not only studying and comparing drastically the analysis of how each institution has different institutions, but also the importance of potentially initiated or reflected neighbourhood experiencing and observing them first hand to change more generally, and gentrification more grasp the nuances of social, cultural and specifically. institutional interactions that contribute to a shared and collaborative ethnography. The three 13 Grodach, C., Foster, N. and Murdoch, J. (2014). Gentrification and the Artistic Dividend: The Role of the Arts in Neighborhood Change. Retrieved from https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Research-Art-Works- Arlington2.pdf 14 Ibid. Art Institutions: Initiators and Reflectors of Neighbourhood Change | By: Ekaterina Mizrokhi and Melissa Vincent 3 ARTS-INSTITUTION SPECTRUM arts-led gentrification. This spectrum identifies the differences enacted by emerging institutions Through studying and comparing the three in gentrifying neighbourhoods, ranging from The institutions, we discovered a blind spot in Curator on one end of the spectrum to firmly traditional anchor institution theory that views established institutions in homogeneously anchor-led neighbourhood change as a process affluent neighbourhoods, such as The Relic, on the with a uniform trajectory destined to enter end- other end. The two ends of the spectrum are stage gentrification.15 Instead, this report shows bisected by particular institutions, such as The that institutional bodies have a high degree of Reflector, whose very identity is informed by their influence and power to make active and role as a reflexive intermediary in a gentrifying conscious decisions that impact gentrifying and neighbourhood. gentrified space. The institution itself is not a puppet of the greater forces of gentrification, but These institutions are ones that have rather takes on the role of an agent by asserting historically been witness to various waves of the particular brand of neighbourhood change it settlement and gentrification, though they act on wants to enact.
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